From: tim.wnosp@mtavirgin.net   
      
   On 05/06/2013 15:04, philo  wrote:   
   > On 06/05/2013 08:51 AM, Tim W wrote:   
   >> I used a free 'easeus' backup frogram for years to make data and system   
   >> backups to an external hard drive I bought for the purpose. Last week I   
   >> discovered I had inadvertently deleted some files so I went to try to   
   >> recover them from my extensive backups. Easeus would not open even one   
   >> of the backup files it had made. It seems I was wasting my time - and   
   >> those backups were really slow too.   
   >>   
   >> I turned to MS Backup in System tools and it won't write a file big   
   >> enough to be useful - is it a 4Gb limit? I could backup onto 20 DVDRs   
   >> with that if I wanted to but I don't. I want a nice simple way of   
   >> backing up all my data before the Hard drive fails on the old machine   
   >> and if it helps me recover from system failure then that's good too but   
   >> the data is really important. If I have to set it running and go to bed   
   >> that is fine, as long as it actually works.   
   >>   
   >> At the moment I have no backup of anything. I don't want to spend the   
   >> time going through the whole drive copying individual folders all day.   
   >> How do I back up my data from XP? How can it be so difficult?   
   >>   
   >> Tim W   
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   > Is your file system Fat32?   
   > It has a 4gig file size limit   
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   I had not thought of that.   
      
   It is ntfs on the C Drive and Fat32 on the external drive. Easeus split   
   the the backup into 4gig files but it turned out it was then unable to   
   read any of them. Windows backup writes until it gets to 4gig then stops   
   and says it can't complete the task.   
      
   Tim W   
      
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